CT Images from Cancer Imaging Archive with Contrast and Patient Age

Dataset Description

The dataset is designed to allow for different methods to be tested for examining the trends in CT image data associated with using contrast and patient age. The basic idea is to identify image textures, statistical patterns and features correlating strongly with these traits and possibly build simple tools for automatically classifying these images when they have been misclassified (or finding outliers which could be suspicious cases, bad measurements, or poorly calibrated machines)

Data

The data are a tiny subset of images from the cancer imaging archive. They consist of the middle slice of all CT images taken where valid age, modality, and contrast tags could be found. This results in 475 series from 69 different patients.

TCIA Archive Link - https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCGA-LUAD

Dataset Distribution

Contrast

Preprocessing

Copying all files into a temporary directory.

Now,

Modeling: Keras Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) for Image Classifications

A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is a class of feedforward artificial neural network (ANN). The algorithm at each iteration uses the Cross-Entropy Loss to measure the loss, and then the gradient and the model update is calculated. At the end of this iterative process, we would reach a better level of agreement between test and predicted sets since the error would be lower from that of the first step.

Compiling and fitting the model


References

  1. Kaggle Dataset: CT Medical Images
  2. TCGA-LUAD Dataset
  3. Albertina, B., Watson, M., Holback, C., Jarosz, R., Kirk, S., Lee, Y., … Lemmerman, J. (2016). Radiology Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Lung Adenocarcinoma [TCGA-LUAD] collection. The Cancer Imaging Archive.
  4. Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057.